Suits Page #2

Season #1

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GERALD TATE (55, street smart, ex-prize fighter) yells at

Katherine. Harvey saunters in unnoticed in his $4,000 suit.

GERALD:

I don’t care who’s on his way. I’m

paying you millions, and you’re telling

me I’m going to get screwed?!

HARVEY:

Katherine, have I come at a bad time?

She cracks a smile. The cavalry is here. She hands Harvey a

stack of deal memos. Harvey proceeds to examine them.

KATHERINE:

Gerald, I’d like you to meet Harvey

Specter. He’s our best attorney.

GERALD:

If you’re their best attorney, where the

hell have you been the last three hours?

A moment. Harvey speaks calmly while scanning the memos.

HARVEY:

Well, Gerald, I specialize in troubled

situations. And when I left here at 7:00

PM this deal wasn’t in jeopardy. So,

what I’m trying to do now is understand

what happened in the interim.

GERALD:

We keep raising the price and they keep

rejecting it. It’s last minute bad faith

bullshit.

Harvey ignores Gerald and continues scanning.

HARVEY:

It says here Cooper’s no longer staying

on as honorary Vice President.

GERALD:

That’s right. I don’t want him around.

HARVEY:

He... wouldn’t be around. It’s an

honorary position.

GERALD:

I don’t give a crap.

Harvey puts the memo down and looks Gerald in the eye.

HARVEY:

I think you do. Because that’s what

changed since I left. Which means it’s

you who’s been dealing in bad faith.

GERALD:

Well, now that you’ve gotten a handle on

what’s happened in the God damn interim,

what are you going to do about it?

Because he’s not getting that title.

Harvey casually pours a glass of water.

HARVEY:

Let me just make sure I understand. We

negotiated a deal that got you everything

you wanted. Mr. Cooper signed it. And

now you won’t close until we take away

the last shred of his dignity?

GERALD:

Bingo.

HARVEY:

Well, that’s not going to happen.

He offers the water. Gerald looks at it with contempt, then:

GERALD:

Why the hell not?

HARVEY:

Because I like Mr. Cooper. And my firm

doesn’t operate in bad faith.

Harvey drinks the water himself.

GERALD:

How I see it is, instead of working

Cooper, you’re working me. So take your

faggoty attitude back in there and make

him sign my deal or I’ll pay someone else

your money to do it for me.

HARVEY:

First of all, Gerald, if you think anyone

is gonna touch this deal after your bad

faith, you’re mistaken. Second, the way

our agreement works is the minute Cooper

signed the deal that gave you everything

you wanted, our fee was due and payable.

Harvey reaches into his jacket pocket.

HARVEY:

Which is why at 7:30, I received

confirmation of a wire transfer from

escrow indicating payment in full.

He removes a fax.

HARVEY:

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